The Atenas Sentinel
Squad15 Feb 2027
Atenas lose Freddy Barrios
37 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Market15 Feb 2027
Diego Cabrera is a Atenas player again
He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.
Market15 Feb 2027
Santiago Pellistri is a Atenas player again
He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.
Market15 Feb 2027
Sebastian Cardozo is a Atenas player again
He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.
Market15 Feb 2027
Marcelo Santos comes home
The shirt still fits. Marcelo Santos is back at Atenas, and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Guillermo Oroño gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
In brief
- Match Atenas share the spoils with River Plate
- Squad Ferreira finally opens his account
- Squad Manuel Idiarte makes his debut at 21